“I love the idea of an open and distributed — yet connected — network,” Ev Williams said via email. Innovation in social networking has suffered over the past decade because “the major platforms have had too strong of a network effect for new ideas to get to critical mass,” he added.
“Now we are at a unique point in time when people are actively looking for alternatives, which is exciting.”
“I don’t think of this as an experiment even,” Stubblebine [@coachtony] says of Mastodon. “We think Mastodon tipped over and that all authors need to be there.”